[CaptainChaos]

Tethering for most iPhone users is not going to be a great experience due to the limited availabilty of the 3G network, but it gives people another option. That within itself is cool due to the fact that you are already paying a grip of cash for the iPhone's data plan and it will kill the need to have a alternate pc card plan with AT&T.

There is a need for this, but not for everyone. It makes sense.

[name00]

honestly, tethering is pretty awesome optional. but i dont think u guys would pay more for it if ATT raised the damn price.
anyway , we've got PDAnet, (but i dont use it) i use terminal and 3tiny proxy instead.
WHY DO WE HAVE TO PAY MORE
3G is awesome but ATT is NOT

[CaptainChaos]

Originally Posted by name00

honestly, tethering is pretty awesome optional. but i dont think u guys would pay more for it if ATT raised the damn price.
anyway , we've got PDAnet, (but i dont use it) i use terminal and 3tiny proxy instead.
WHY DO WE HAVE TO PAY MORE
3G is awesome but ATT is NOT

AT&T works great for me. Always has.

With the tethering package available you can bet they will be paying closer attention to data usage.

[sziklassy]

Paying even more money to use the same internet/data that we already get on our iPhones... aside from maybe corporate accounts I see very few people jumping on board for this. Most cities where there is money already have wifi connectivity in every possible store anyway.

It is very easy to track which data comes from where... have you ever seen peoples sigs that say "you are using windows vista utimate have xxx gigs of ram and are on firefox 3.0"? )that is just an example. What it would take is to alter what information is sent out to the ISP from your computer... this can be done easily according to my friends who know more about computers than I do, however I just don;t have aneed for tethering where I am.

[WillyDavidK]

gah, way to take something that could be a good thing and make it absolutely suck ATT. If they open up tethering publicly by any means, it's just going to cause their cell towers to become even more overloaded than they already are. Not to mention like others have mentioned, once there is an official option available ATT will pay more attention to users tethering that haven't paid for the option.

Lastly, this should be included in an unlimited data plan, damnit!!!!

[blacksti]

Tru dat iphone does everything i want it to but i cant seem to get swirly mms to work lol

[Alperovich]

Originally Posted by WillyDavidK

this should be included in an unlimited data plan, damnit!!!!

yes it will be included but the plan will cost more now

[dontevenfucwitme]

Originally Posted by Happy Noodle Boy

Why even have an iPhone if all you're doing is complaining of what it doesn't have.

-why mms when you have e-mail? get with the times.
-get backgrounder
-get cycorder
-get beejive (or wait for push-services and get aim/palringo/whatever)
-learn to manage your space, you do NOT need your entire library with you. Learn to love playlists.
-why? video conference? Has anyone ever actually used that, ever?
-camera could be a little better, I'll give you that.
-the case is just fine as it is. If you want extra protection buy a shell for it.
-the 3G's battery is pretty damn awesome considering all it does. I can get 6 hours of heavy use with over 1 1/2 day of standby. And there's plenty of battery packs for the phone as it is.
-copy/paste is the 2nd point I'll concede.

are you really claiming that you dont get seriously pissed off when one of your friends sends sends you something (pic, video) and you get that stupid message to go to the at&t website viewmymessage.com (barely ever works anyway), then you get to explain to your friend (who sent the pic from a free phone, or $20 prepaid tracphone) that your $300.00 "state of the art" phone cant even get a damn picture message??! you are crazy! sure email is great, i love it, but the truth is i only know 3 or 4 people that have the iphone, and a few with blackberries or other pdas....so emailing pics isnt always an option...not smart for at&t since they dont charge extra for emails but they do for picture and video sms

/rant

[Happy Noodle Boy]

Originally Posted by dontevenfucwitme

are you really claiming that you dont get seriously pissed off when one of your friends sends sends you something (pic, video) and you get that stupid message to go to the at&t website viewmymessage.com (barely ever works anyway), then you get to explain to your friend (who sent the pic from a free phone, or $20 prepaid tracphone) that your $300.00 "state of the art" phone cant even get a damn picture message??! you are crazy! sure email is great, i love it, but the truth is i only know 3 or 4 people that have the iphone, and a few with blackberries or other pdas....so emailing pics isnt always an option...not smart for at&t since they dont charge extra for emails but they do for picture and video sms

/rant

I've asked all my friends to e-mail me instead, so I don't miss anything. Also, with phone's getting more advanced every day, do you really think MMS is going to be around for long while e-mail becomes the standard texting method? MMS is limited to your phone. E-mail you can check/receive/send from pretty much anywhere. Hell, I don't even use the SMS app anymore since I added all my friends' mobile phones as contacts on AIM and use that to text instead at no extra cost.

[CaptainChaos]

So getting a crappy little picture in MMS makes THE difference in whether a phone is acceptable or not? Cmon.

Take a look at the majority of the phones coming out...see a trend here? Every carrier's top phone emulates the iPhone. You cannot deny the direction that phones are heading in.

Do I want to pay more to tether? No, but there are probably a ton of folks who will. This will open up all the internet related issues people gripe about.

[WillyDavidK]

Originally Posted by dontevenfucwitme

are you really claiming that you dont get seriously pissed off when one of your friends sends sends you something (pic, video) and you get that stupid message to go to the at&t website viewmymessage.com (barely ever works anyway), then you get to explain to your friend (who sent the pic from a free phone, or $20 prepaid tracphone) that your $300.00 "state of the art" phone cant even get a damn picture message??! you are crazy! sure email is great, i love it, but the truth is i only know 3 or 4 people that have the iphone, and a few with blackberries or other pdas....so emailing pics isnt always an option...not smart for at&t since they dont charge extra for emails but they do for picture and video sms

/rant

Well I've never even received a single MMS message, because it is an outdated technology that was only implemented to make the mobile carriers more money in the first place. People are moving on already, and Apple is known for being one step ahead of the public in abandoning outdated technology.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, the reason MMS is absent is NOT because Apple couldn't do it, it's because they specifically did not want MMS included.

[imagine engine]

No carrier should dictate what is allowed or not allowed on a manufacturers cellular device. AT&T doesn't own Apple so Apple shouldn't be checking with them what's okay for iPhone users. Especially since the iPhone is now sold worldwide with carriers such as Rogers (located in Canada) that do allow tethering on their smartphone data plans. Due to Apple's tactics regarding pulling Nullriver's NetShare app from the App Store it was reason enough to jailbreak to install PDANet so I could tether my iPhone 3G to my MacBook Pro. I've found it useful on several occasions and it didn't require approval from my carrier.

[Rocketerz]

I highly doubt people are moving past MMS, maybe im "old school" but everyone I know is still using MMS alot. It's too convienent to be far away and take a pic and just send it to someone elses cell phone, when everyone does get a smart phone maybe we will go to all email, but I cant see everyone making the jump quite so soon.

[pininfarina]

what do you do with an mms pic after you receive it on your phone? Nothing? you cant even see the pic. And if you try to upload it to a computer, isnt it still the same size as on the phone? and increasing the size kills the quality. Whereas if you email it, it is full size. Plus, the ease of mms is the same as Email if you set up your contacts with their email addresses. Am i wrong?

[WillyDavidK]

Yes, but it's so much easier to complain constantly about MMS than it is to accept that you are using a smartphone, and should be using email instead.